Avant-garde Composer and Activist Julius Eastman’s Music Resurgence

Born in 1940, Julius Eastman was a post-minimalist composer, pianist, and Grammy-nominated vocalist. Though he forged a place in New York’s experimental music scene of the 1970s and ‘80s as a distinctive composer and riveting performer, for decades his music was largely forgotten and his name faded to obscurity. In recent years, his catalog has experienced an extraordinary resurgence through the younger generations of various musical collectives.